arXiv AI

Domain-Specific Jargon in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis between General-Purpose and Specialist Models

The paper investigates how large language models handle domain-specific jargon, comparing a general-purpose Llama‑3.1 with a version fine‑tuned on medical data. Two new medical jargon benchmarks reveal that the general model actually outperforms the fine‑tuned variant, and interpretability tools show the fine‑tuned model over‑emphasizes a few components linked to jargon predictions. Reweighting these components narrows the performance gap, and some jargon‑sensitive components also aid materials‑science tasks, indicating a partially domain‑agnostic representation of specialized terminology.

arXiv AI
Jul 22

MEDIC: Comprehensive Evaluation of Leading Indicators for LLM Safety and Utility in Clinical Applications

arXiv:2409. 07314v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve superhuman performance on standardized medical licensing exams, these static benchmarks have become saturated and increasingly disconnected from the functional requirements of clinical workflows.

By Praveenkumar Kanithi, Cl\'ement Christophe, Marco AF Pimentel, Tathagata Raha, Prateek Munjal, Nada Saadi, Hamza A Javed, Svetlana Maslenkova, Nasir Hayat, Ronnie Rajan, Shadab Khan
arXiv AI
Oct 31

Assessing Language Models for Scientific Applications: Inertial Confinement Fusion as a Use Case

The paper introduces a benchmark of 250 expert-curated questions on inertial confinement fusion to evaluate language models on scientific fluency, physical reasoning, and quantitative analysis. It compares various closed‑source, open‑source, and a specialized model called Prospero, showing that Prospero improves by 10.7 percentage points and that frontier models still make critical physics errors. Retrieval assistance helps smaller models but not frontier ones, and two stress tests highlight the need for expert assessment of physical assumptions.

By P. B. Radha, D. D. Meyerhofer, M. Bhattarai, B. Cheng, L. Diaz, C. L. Rousculp, A. G. Seaton, G. Gupta, P. Gurumurthy, V. Gutta, A. Jhunjhunwala, A. Vem, P. Cook, G. Rowe
arXiv AI
Oct 31

Prompt Lottery in LLM-as-a-Judge: Measuring and Mitigating Sensitivity to Syntactic Rephrasing

The paper introduces the "Prompt Lottery" phenomenon, where paraphrastic rephrasings of judge prompts in LLM-as-a-Judge (LLMaJ) lead to inconsistent judgments and can even reverse model rankings. A large-scale study across various tasks, judge families, and model backbones demonstrates that these prompt variations significantly alter evaluation outcomes. A user study shows that LLMaJ judges are 6–9 times more sensitive to prompt rephrasings than humans, and that aggregating multiple prompts improves robustness by focusing on consistent judgments.

By Ilija Subasic, Brett Levert, Andrew Rabinovich, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Zhao Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

Clinician use of language models diverges from how the models are evaluated

Large language model assistants are being deployed to clinicians, but their readiness is judged mainly by benchmark scores that are based on examination questions or curated cases. This study analyzed 127,833 queries from 6,342 healthcare professionals across 35 specialties, finding that most requests were for documentation, administration, and knowledge retrieval, with a significant portion of queries unanswerable. When compared to 58 public benchmarks, the median benchmark lacked documentation requests and only shared 31% of the real task mix, indicating that current benchmarks poorly reflect actual clinical use.

By Krithik Vishwanath, Haitong Lin, Anton Alyakin, Jin Vivian Lee, D. Brock Hewitt, Jie J. Yao, William Robert Small, Hammad A. Khan, Cordelia Orillac, Aakaash Varma, Brandon Ye, Daniel Alexander Alber, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Batia Wiesenfeld, Oded Nov, Wei Wu, Kang Zhang, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, Tim Requarth, Eric Karl Oermann, The International Digital Twin Consortium in Healthcare, Medicine
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Latent Performance Profiling of Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.30018v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) frequently achieve impressive scores on standardized benchmarks, yet accuracy alone offers a limited view of the...

By Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ayan Sengupta, Suparna Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Amlan Chakrabarti, Supratik Chakraborty, Partha Pratim Das, Lipika Dey, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa